Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
And that is why to this day, old and young, boys and babies, all alike, ride, when the great god wills, upon the grey-black buffalo, as it makes its slow-moving way to the quiet Kingdom of Death.
Who acts: that, boys, great god wills · What happens: be, ride, make, move · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, boys, great god wills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 why | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 why | cop |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ride | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 young | cc |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 old | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ride | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 babies | cc |
| 15 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boys | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ride | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 ride | advmod |
| 18 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 all | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 20 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 why | advcl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 makes | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 makes | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wills | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wills | amod |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wills | compound |
| 26 | wills | will | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 makes | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 buffalo | punct |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 buffalo | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 buffalo | det |
| 30 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 buffalo | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 grey | punct |
| 32 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 buffalo | amod |
| 33 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wills | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 makes | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 makes | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 makes | nsubj |
| 37 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ride | parataxis |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 moving | nmod:poss |
| 39 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 moving | advmod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 slow | punct |
| 41 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 makes | advcl |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 moving | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Kingdom | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Kingdom | det |
| 45 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Kingdom | amod |
| 46 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 moving | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Death | case |
| 48 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Kingdom | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | infinitive | boys and babies | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | present | the great god wills upon the grey black buffalo | buffalo nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | move | gerund | the great god wills upon the grey black buffalo not said here | way | to the quiet Kingdom of Death result; buffalo nmod:poss | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent way=Theme to kingdom=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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